pondlike
adjEtymology From pond + -like.
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Resembling a pond
- Small streams are usually swift; large streams tend to be slower and often have deep, pondlike areas.1974, Samuel Eddy, James Campbell Underhill, Northern Fishes, →ISBN, page 49:
- Lake Nipigon covers nearly 1,900 square miles, but on a map it looks pondlike compared with the body of water it drains into: Lake Superior, the largest of the five Great Lakes, or as the Anishinaabe call it, Anishinaabewi-gichigami—the Anishinaabe’s Great Lake.December 2020, Tim Folger, “North America’s most valuable resource is at risk”, in National Geographic: